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Friday, August 31st, 2012On July 26, The National Endowment for the Humanities announced a $1 million award to support the incorporation and launch of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a groundbreaking project that seeks to digitize and bring together the contents of our nation’s libraries and archives, and make them freely available to all online. Complete […]
RI Library Report
Monday, July 30th, 2012Don’t miss all the news on RI libraries as reported by The Rhode Island Library Report. The project is an online public journalism project that will explore the essential role played by libraries in Rhode Island as they face an uncharted future. The project will examine their past, present and future functions and will encourage […]
Public access to digital content
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012“Public libraries to lead initiative to ensure public access to digital content” In a press release dated 10 July 2012, OCLC announced that it received an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant in the amount of $99,957.00 for a new initiative, “The Big Shift: Advancing Public Library Participation in Our Digital Future.” The purpose […]
Want to create a new library experience?
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012At R-Squared — The Risk & Reward Conference, learn to take smart risks to move libraries forward. September 9-11, 2012 Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village, Telluride, Colo. In February 2011, a group of Colorado library professionals began brainstorming how libraries can avoid extinction, reinvent themselves and strengthen their role as vital parts of their […]
What is more important- content or format?
Wednesday, June 6th, 2012Many librarians like to claim that the format in which information comes (ebook, audiobook, print book) doesn’t matter, as long as the content is there. However, have you considered the issue of access? If something is available online and the library must distribute access to individuals, does that indeed make that particular information accessible? A […]
Twitter success with city residents
Thursday, April 26th, 2012The city of Palo Alto in California is using twitter as a social media tool to host in-depth chats for their residents. Could this be another way for libraries to collect feedback from town residents? To hear how it was done in Palo Alto and what the mistakes were and how they were corrected, read […]
Why Speed Matters
Friday, March 23rd, 2012There has been a lot of talk about our collective shorter attention spans, but it seems we are becoming more impatient as well. For instance, did you realize that 1 in 4 people abandon a web page that takes more than four seconds to load? How do you think this will affect information learning behaviors […]
Social Media and Libraries
Friday, March 2nd, 2012Social media and Web 2.0 applications and tools are increasingly being used by U.S. libraries of all types. Social Media, Libraries, and Web 2.0: How American Libraries are Using New Tools for Public Relations and to Attract New Users was recently published by the South Carolina State Library. This report provides quantitative and qualitative data […]
iLibrary: Digital Futures for Libraries
Friday, December 23rd, 2011The NETSL Annual Spring Conference Program 2012, iLibrary: Digital Futures for Libraries, will take place Thursday, May 3, 2012 at the Hogan Campus Center at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. The keynote speaker is Rachel Frick, Senior Program Officer for the Digital Library Federation (DLF) at the Council on Library and […]
Digital Public Library of America
Wednesday, September 28th, 2011Ever wonder if something similar to the scale and magnitude of European Library may exist in our world? If you have been paying attention to the progress of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) project, you may declare with reservation that this can be it for us. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation […]
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